Amazon

Amazon having earlier in the week decided to remove encryption from all of its Kindle Fire devices seems to have had a change of heart. Perhaps all the recent Apple discussions have had some influence here, seems like encryption is a pretty hot topic in the last couple of weeks.

Apple vs. FBI

Apple and the FBI seem to be heading for the ring to slug it out. There doesn't appear to be a compromise and the debate is probably going to go on for some time while a precedent is set. On the one hand, it's our privacy and our security on the line, on the other it's our privacy and our security on the line.

Guccifer

Romanian hacker Guccifer to be extradited to the US for having hacked the email accounts of a few public figures (Bush family members, Colin Powell and a few others). He claims to have guessed their security questions to gain access to their passwords. Hi-tech stuff.

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Password Report

We all see the detectives on the television trying the name of the suspects dog as the password to access their computer but the reality is that this would be a secure password compared to the most common ones. The report by Rapid7 is really quite frightening but also quite entertaining.